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It’s voting time for this week’s Embroidery/Stitchery quilt contest. Grab yourself a cup of coffee and a pencil to make note of your faves. You can vote for FOUR favourites this weekend.

Valerie from Pastimes Online is this week’s sponsor and she’s giving away a lovely embroidery kit to this week’s quilter with the most votes over the weekend.

Now it’s time for you to vote for your favourites!

Voting is open Friday â€“ Monday, June 25th at 8 a.m. (EDT)

One vote per person (based on IP address NOT email address), so have your family and friends cast a ballot for their favourite quilt (from home if you send it to coworkers)

Winner announced Monday afternoon/evening

How to Vote:

Review the photos and stories below… there are several, so you’ll need to scroll down to see them all. You can also click the link to the slider version to review the quilts in the large format and then return to this page to vote.

Underneath the photos, scroll down, you’ll see the names of all the quilts with a square button** beside each one. Select the buttons for the quilts you want to vote for. You can select up to FOUR quilts this week.

Then scroll down, all the way, until you get to the bottom of the names of the quilts. Press the vote button.

** Note: If you don’t see the square buttons to vote, but instead see the voting results, that means someone on your IP Address already voted, or that the voting period has ended, or that you need to refresh the page to see the voting options. Shared IP Addresses are very common in home or work networks.

I embroidered these blocks on my embroidery machine a while ago, it’s the same tree, just changed the thread colors and omitted the leaves on the winter tree. The designed the quilt in EQ7 as a log cabin and made them match the blocks, densely quilted feathers and bubbles and lines all over quilt.

This quilt is a BOM from Corey Yoder of Little Miss Shabby blog. I completed all the embroidery and patchwork, then put the quilt together and sent it to Mary Flynn of Quilt Hollow for her custom longarm quilting.

I was a little girl who always wore my blonde hair in pigtails, and I loved playing in the garden. When I found the pattern for this embroidery I fell in love with it. I had some left over charms from Dilly Dally and knew they would be perfect to make this into a pillow

Designed by Marlene Baerg Oddie in 2005 to use the embroidered blocks I had made in the late 1940s. Marlene wanted me to have a project to distract me from the breast cancer diagnosis. She provided all the materials from her travels at that time. It took me 3 years to hand piece and hand quilt it.

These six cross stitch pictures are from Thea Gouvernour’s “Flower Portraits in Cross Stitch”. They were combined with six rural scenes from Back Home Again from Wilmington Prints then surrounded by groups of soft floral and leafy prints

I bought the pattern for this quilt, and never got around to making it. Then some blog friends were doing a quilt along using this pattern, so I decided to join them. I’m glad I did because I just love this quilt! The pattern is from Anni Downs. :0)

Quilt size: width: 50" height: 50"

Grandma’s ThimblesBy: Cathy Parker,
California, USA

I collect antique silver thimbles. I designed this bluework quilt which represents many thimbles in my collection. I love it. It is hanging above my bed. It was machine quilted by Karen Gehring. If you are interested, I have it available as a pattern, from my website, www.quiltingbeedesigns.com.

This quilt was inspired by watching Carol Waugh on “The Quilt Show” I was amazed at the work she did using a combination of machine decorative stitches and hand embroidery. This is my first completed piece in this style. I used my background in abstract art to design the work as I went.

Quilt size: width: 16" height: 14.7"

Home Sweet HomeBy: sheila Craigie,
Australia

Hand embroidered from a Commercial Pattern but with mine own additional embroidery and piecing pattern.

it was my photo from spring forest. then I created pattern for embroidery, then embroidered :), and, from this center piece gone a wall-hanging. hand quilted and hand embroidered.

Quilt size: width: 20" height: 20"

Lace and EmbroideryBy: Isabell,
United Kingdom

My quilt is made from Dupion Silk with hand embroidered fine cotton blocks appliqued onto the silk. Lace edgings have been added to create a gentle soft look to the quilt.The lines for the pattern embroidery from a past issue of Inspirations Magazine (AU).Bullion, french knot, chain stitches.

Everyone has to start at some point – the little scene was my second quilt and I did it for a Doll Quilt Swap this May – it was themed “may flowers” and as I wondered how a flower pattern could look I decided to stich them, as I’m no regular stitcher I turned the other half into the Mayflower.

Quilt size: width: 20" height: 13"

Mui Rojo Loco (I’m crazy for Red)By: Kathleen Dieter,
Tennessee, USA

Red work embroidery and log cabin bloks combined to make this challenge quilt. I made this in 2002 for The Heritage Quilt Guild Challenge in Athens Tn.

Can you imagine how mushrooms live in the forest? I tried to imagine it and I made this quilt. This quilt is made of several embroidered squares and a 3D butterfly applique with beautiful matching colors. Enjoy it!

The patterns are old…from the 30’s and reprinted in our local newspaper back in 2003…I’ve always loved to embroider and combining it with my favourite past time of quilting just seemed to be the thing to do. Muslin and taupe floss .

Quilt size: width: 78" height: 78"

ParadiseBy: Ingrid Behnke,
Germany

This quilt is made from my wedding dress.It shows a paradise bird, symbolising that I have the best husband ever since we married 37 years ago.

Passport to Freedom…..husband’s reflections of escaping from border patrol duty from Czech army into Austria at age 18, working for his passport, plane ticket and $50 to come to the freedom of America and settling in Chicago area…Dekalb /Cortland Illinois area to be specific.

A pillow I made for my studio a few months after the loss of my daughter. It is entirely made of scraps, including a spare napkin I had laying around. The heart is paper pieced. The design and saying are from a book in my collection. It was truly a healing project!

This quilt was designed and hosted as a BOM by Kaaren Johnson from The Painted Quilt in 2010/2011. Kaaren made her quilt as a scrappy quilt. My version is made in shades of brown, to give it the chocolate look. Friendships were formed and I learned a few new techniques. I completed it in April 2012.

Quilt size: width: 61.4" height: 77.5"

Raggedy FriendsBy: Sharon Vrooman,
New York, USA

This was a BOM designed by Kaaren Johnsten. Loved all the sticheries and I hand quilted with matching floss. Of course – lots of buttons for embellishments.

I cross-stitched an sea-alphabet for my granddaughter Celine. Just before finishing I thought: I don’t need to copy this exactly, I’m more creative than that. I cut all letters out and combined them with courthouse steps blocks. And this is the result!

Slime mold was inspired by an microscope image from Scientific American wisted by my swap partner. I don’t know what it is, but Slime Mold seemed to fit, thus the name. It includes raw edge applique, hand dyed fabric, embroidery, beading, machine and hand quilting.

I was happy to make this quilt for gdaughters baby. She said “Oh grandma its a girl” This was backed up by the next two ultrasound. Then its a boy. Hurry. Its Machine pieced and embroidery. You can see another image of it on my blog http://comfortquilts.blogspot.com/2011/03/tatums-quilt-close-up.htm

Quilt size: width: 40" height: 40"

Embroidery/Stitchery

Circles of Life (35%, 226 Votes)

Hills and Fields in Alabama (20%, 126 Votes)

Mui Rojo Loco (I'm crazy for Red) (14%, 92 Votes)

Summer magic! (12%, 78 Votes)

Birdie Stitches (11%, 71 Votes)

Gardener's Journal Quilt (11%, 69 Votes)

Paradise (10%, 62 Votes)

A Gardeners' Journal (10%, 61 Votes)

Home Sweet Home (8%, 52 Votes)

Child of God (8%, 49 Votes)

Sea-alphabet for Celine (8%, 48 Votes)

Happy Honu (7%, 47 Votes)

Patchwork Heart Pillow (7%, 43 Votes)

Nursery Rhymes (7%, 42 Votes)

Grandma's Thimbles (6%, 38 Votes)

Flowers all around (6%, 37 Votes)

Raggedy Friends (5%, 34 Votes)

Anthony's Quilt (4%, 26 Votes)

Dutch Kids Quilt (4%, 25 Votes)

Calyx (3%, 20 Votes)

Black Rose (3%, 19 Votes)

Tatum's Baby Blanket (3%, 17 Votes)

Couverture afghane (3%, 17 Votes)

Slime MOld (3%, 17 Votes)

Passport to Freedom (2%, 14 Votes)

Incrusted Ferns (2%, 13 Votes)

Handbag (2%, 13 Votes)

Floral Quilt (2%, 13 Votes)

Lace and Embroidery (2%, 12 Votes)

Raggedy and Friends (in Chocolate) (2%, 12 Votes)

4 seasons (1%, 9 Votes)

Mayflower - may flowers (1%, 4 Votes)

Mushroom Life In The Forest (0%, 1 Votes)

Total Voters: 637

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Next Week’s Quilt Contest

The theme for next week’s contest is Summertime Fun. You can submit quilts, wall hangings, pillows, etc. as long as the item you enter is completely finished (i.e. bound and quilted). You are free to interpret this theme as you like. Get your cameras out!

To enter the weekly contest, read the rules and guidelines, then submit your quilt photo by next Friday, June 29, 2012 at 8:00 a.m. (EDT). Voting will start shortly thereafter and last until the following Monday, July 2, 2012 at 8:00 a.m. (EDT).

Beginner’s Quilt-Along

Block 3 of our Beginner’s Quilt-Along is now available. Pat Sloan named this blocked Time for Ice Cream, aka Shoo Fly. It’s our first of several half square triangle blocks that we’ll be making. I’ve shared an easy (and the most common) method for making HSTs too. View the Block 3 tutorial here.

P.S. Missing out on the fun? You can join the quilt-along at any time. The blocks are easy, and you’ll catch up quickly. Check the Flickr group to see the blocks others have made. We have weekly prizes too!